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. I. KINNEY. Pistol-Rest.

No. 225,062. Patented Mar. 2,1880.

N. PEERS, PHO

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL KINNEY, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDGHARLES POLE, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,062, dated March 2, 1880.

Application lcd J une 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsRAEL KINNEY, of Windsor, in the county of Essex and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Clamp for Securing a Pistol to a Walking-Stick, of which the following is a spccitication.

A light pocket-pistol, as is well known, is an uncertain means for defense, especially at 1o night, exceptto practiced experts, by reason ofthe strong trigger-pull, which is liable to swerve it from a correct aim at the instant of flring.

The object I have in view is to provide a means for clamping it to an ordinary walkingstick, so that the user can hold it steady, like a gun, to the shoulder, against which the pull will then come while taking aim and tiring, and at the saine time not interfere with a corzo rect sighting of the weapon.

Figure lis a perspective view, showing how a pocket repeatingpistol may be clamped to a walking-stick. Fig. 2 is a crosssection at a' x.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary 2 5 pocket-revolver, and B a walking-stick. O C. are two metal plates, curved to t over and under the stick and the barrel of the pistol, which are 'clamped together in the relative position shown by the screw c, tapped through 3o the central part of the plates C C'. That portion of the lower half or part, C', of the clamp which embraces the lower side of the pistol, and which is marked c, is enlarged, as shown in Fig. 2, in order not to interfere with the operation of the center rod, d, while the upper 3 5 edges ofthe said part o will rest against the sides of the barrel, as shown.

The upper plate, O, is notched or slotted to let the fore sight b of the pistol project above it, so that the aim may be taken along both sights, in the usual manner. This slot, einbracing the fore sight, as shown, also prevents the. pistol from becoming accidentally disengaged Jfrom the clamp should the thumb-screw a become accidentally loosened.

I am aware that clamps have been constructed and are in common use composed of two parts secured together by a bolt. Therefore I do not broadly claim a clamp in itself; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pistol-clamp consisting of the two parts G Uf, secured together by a thumb-screw, a, the upper part, C, being provided with a slot to embrace the fore sight ofthe pistol, and the lower part, Cf, enlarged, as described, as and for the purposes set forth.

' ISRAEL KINNEY.

Witnesses: H. L. AULLs,

DAVID PATTERSON. 

